Health

Our Clinical Services Division provides an array of healthcare services, including low-cost or sliding scale services for people who are uninsured or underinsured. Service areas include:

• Family Planning services, including well-woman exams; breast and cervical cancer screenings (Early Detection Works); Universal Home Visiting; pregnancy testing; reproductive planning and counseling; and birth control, including oral contraceptives and long-acting birth control options (IUDs, implants, Depo-Provera)
• Immunizations, including childhood immunizations, travel vaccinations, and seasonal vaccines (flu and COVID)
• Laboratory, including pregnancy testing, tuberculosis testing, and a variety of commonly requested direct access labs.
• Limited Primary Care, including treatment for common conditions, pre-employment physicals, and sports and camp physicals.
• Prenatal care and resources, including free prenatal classes using the March of Dimes Becoming a Mom® curriculum and low-cost prenatal care for uninsured women in Wyandotte County
• Sexually transmitted infection (STI) counseling, testing and treatment; STI services also include HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), which is medicine to prevent HIV for people at high risk of contracting HIV
• Billing, Forms and Medical Records
• Tobacco treatment services to help people quit tobacco (coordinated by the Community Health Division, in collaboration with Clinical Services)
• Free naloxone (Narcan) and fentanyl test strips (through a partnership between the Community Health Division and Clinical Services)

In addition to the clinical services provided at the health department, our Clinical Services team provides community outreach and education, referral to a variety of social and specialty healthcare services, medical records and billing services, insurance application services, and community systems and services improvement for maternal and child health provision.

Go to our Clinical Services landing page to learn more about the services we provide.

Contact Information

To make appointments for most services or for general questions, call our main number at (913) 573-8855.

The Emergency Preparedness and Response program champions our Health Department’s readiness and efforts to mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from a variety of public health threats, such as infectious diseases, natural disasters, biological, chemical, nuclear, and radiological events. The work of our Emergency Preparedness and Response team includes:

• Developing and maintaining public health emergency response plans and procedures including Community Disease Containment plans, Continuity of Operations Plan, Medical Countermeasures Distribution and Dispensing, and Public Health Emergency and Response plan.
• Preparing and conducting a variety of training and exercise scenarios to help our department and community respond to and recover from public health threats
• Obtaining and maintaining mitigation, response and recovery equipment needed for emergencies
• Facilitating and coordinating Public Health Department responses for public health emergencies and incidents with community members and stakeholders
• Completing after action reporting to identify areas for improvements while maintaining the identified strengths.

Our department’s Emergency Preparedness and Response program is part of and funded by the national Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) program and Cities Readiness Initiative (CRI).

Contact Information

For media inquiries, contact the Public Information Officer, Janell Friesen:

• Email jfriesen@wycokck.org
• Call (913) 573-6703

The WIC/EIP Division focuses on nutrition education, breastfeeding support, education on child development, and aims to improve birth outcomes and supports pregnant teens.

Women, Infants and Children (WIC)

The Wyandotte County WIC program protects the health of low-income women who are pregnant or breastfeeding for up to one year or recently delivered up to six months, infants, and children under age five by providing:

• Nutritious foods at local grocery stores
• Breastfeeding support, including breastfeeding peer counseling
• Nutrition counseling
• Referrals to other health sources and social services

Early Intervention and Prevention (EIP)

Early Intervention and Prevention (EIP) programs include: 

• Healthy Families Wyandotte (HFW) – Intensive Home Visiting program for pregnant moms. Caseworkers work with the moms until their child turns 3 years old. The program focuses on child development, breastfeeding support, and birth outcomes.
• Youth Empowerment Services (Y.E.S.) – Free case management for pregnant and parenting teens and young adults. Eligibility for the Y.E.S. program: 1) age 21 or younger, 2) on Kansas Medicaid, 3) live in Wyandotte County, and 4) pregnant OR have a child under 12 months old.

Contact Information